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So next i have the Fankids. Honestly you can draw them if you want and i wont mind. I love all my fankids and they mean a lot to me.
Can draw them on their own or interacting with each other/ with their parents

Elena- Oldest
Alastor Jr "AJ"- Middle
Loreto- Youngest

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Though her husband Ægir was the embodiment of the sea and Njord was the god of the sea, Ran was the goddess of the sea's unpredictability, keeping the souls of dead sailors for herself. Her daughters made up the waves; her nets were wide.

🖼: Knightfir3

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The Grindylow is a creature of British folklore, that lurks in rivers, ponds and marshes, and drags children to the deepest areas of the shallows.

They're sometimes known as Jenny Greenteeth.

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Lord of Tir na nOg, Manannan is the Son of Lir, the old Irish sea god. Eclipsing his father, Manannan gave his name to the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. He is kind and mysterious, his cloak of mists often covering entire landscapes as he moves.

🖼: J. Brideson

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The sea is as densely populated with fairies as any place on earth. These water sprites control the weather and the water, raise storms, and have the power to cause shipwreck, or keep a ship safe.

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Poseidon fell in love with the nymph, Amphitrite. He asked for her hand but she refused and ran away. He sent his best friend Delphin, a dolphin-shaped god, to speak with her. Delphin's persuasive wit convinced her to marry the God of the Sea.

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This week's theme is 'Drake’s Leat' is a watercourse flowing from Dartmoor to Plymouth. According to legend, bewitched a spring “with magical words and starting away at a gallop, the stream followed his horse’s heels into the town.”

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2021-03-04

The "Red-raired Beard" is a brazilian legend of an enchanted man that lived in a lake. As a newborn, he was left to die but was saved by an ancient river spirit, which raised him. The spirit also turned the river into a lake, where Red Beard lived since.

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In Inuit mythology, Sedna is the goddess of the sea. After running off w/ a dog-man, her father threw her into the sea & cut off her fingers that became seals & fish. In times of illness & hunger shamans swim underwater to comb her hair so as to receive her help.#FolkloreThursday

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Boggarts are the protective spirits of specific locations, such as rivers, hills, or coastal areas. Whereas domestic boggarts sour milk and steal bedsheets, wild boggarts have been known to abduct children and drown strangers. They are are related to Irish púca.

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Ubir or obur (vampire) is a folkloric creature in Northwestern Turkic languages who blood drinker undead person or witch. Famous Turkish traveller Evliya Çelebi (writer of Seyahatname-Book of Travels, 17th century) tells obur stories.

Illustrated by

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The Nuckelavee or "devil of the sea" was a terrifying Orcadian sea creature, part horse, part man with no skin, and black blood. Its breath could cause droughts, spoil crops or bring about a plague. The only way to escape its wrath was to step into fresh water.

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In Circe Invidosa the sorceress is painted in luminous sea greens & blues depicting jealousy.
In this scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses she is poisoning the ocean to transform her love rival Scylla into a sea monster.
(🎨 Waterhouse)

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The Bregdi is a from the seas around Shetland which wraps its long fins around ships and pulls them down into the depths. However, it can be scared off by the touch of steel or by throwing an amber bead at it

Art & info from: https://t.co/BiwXf01pNn

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The superstition that when you break an egg you must crush the ends of the egg as well—otherwise a witch will collect the shell, build a boat, and start a crazy storm out at sea—was a common belief among fishermen.


🖼️Witch raising a storm, 1562, unknown artist

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“Be thou here again
Ere the leviathan can swim a league.”
Oberon, Act 2, Sc 1, AMND
Img: Arthur Rackham, 1908, detail.

A leviathan is a sea monster, originally referred to in the Hebrew bible. In Rackham’s time it was thought of as a dragon/crocodile hybrid.

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We're so excited! 🌊🦭⛵️🧜🌊
NEW book is released today from :
'#TreasuryOfFolklore –  &
by and , illustrated by !
https://t.co/r1bztZv2CT

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Along with many other sea-birds, Irish fishermen believed seagulls held the souls of dead mariners and so should not be harmed in any way...

🎨Segantini

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